{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-1216.12","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 1216.12","heading":"Handle.","body":"Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning in-shell, or crushing of peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned in-shell or shelled peanuts, or other activity causing peanuts to enter the current of commerce: Provided, that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s) and: Provided further, that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER XI—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","PART 1216—PEANUT PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER","Subpart A—Peanut Promotion, Research, and Information Order"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"077d63b49183579cc4622a009947fff908e5659f127788f3bf4421bfad7ab822","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-1216.11","next":"us/7-cfr-1216.13"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}